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WHN Annual Book Prize

Sarah Richardson / June 9, 2025

We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books published from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 December 2024. 2023…

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Dissertation Prize, General, Prizes Category

WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025

Dr Gillian Murphy / May 6, 2025

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome research on any period…

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Women’s History Network Book Prize Winners

Sarah Richardson / September 15, 2024

We are delighted to announce the winners of our annual book prize for 2021 and 2022. The 2021 winner is Siobhan Hearne for her book, Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press) There are joint…

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Prizes, Schools History Prize, Schools History Prize Winners

WHN Schools History Prize 2023

WHN / September 3, 2023

This year for Women’s History Month we invited students to create a poster which illustrated Senior Category Winner Katherine Johnson by Srinidhi Balaji poster The panel were impressed by Srinidhi’s explanation for her eye-catching design: Katherine Johnson was a competent…

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Book Prize, Prizes

Women’s History Network Book Prize for 2022

Dr Anna Muggeridge / August 14, 2023

We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 October 2023 for books published from 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2022. *Please…

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Schools History Prize

WHN Schools History Prize 2023

Tahaney Alghrani / March 2, 2023

March is Women’s History Month and the Schools’ Prize provides a fantastic opportunity for students to become immersed in ‘doing’ history. This year we would like to invite students to create a poster which illustrates The poster, can be created…

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2022 Community History Prize Winners

Dr Nancy Highcock / September 22, 2022

The Joint Winners of the Community History Prize were ‘Women listening to Women’ ‘Women listening to women’ was commended for its use of volunteers and use of oral history to empower and inform participants. Although the budget was relatively large, its…

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Schools History Prize, Schools History Prize Winners

Schools History Prize 2022 – Prize-winners

Tahaney Alghrani / September 5, 2022

This year we invited the students to create a poster which illustrates Heroines who fought for Equality We had some truly amazing entries at both junior and senior level. It was very difficult for the Steering Committee to judge; we were…

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Dissertation Prize, Prizes, Prizes Category

WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2022

Dr Anna Muggeridge / May 5, 2022

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2021-2022 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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